Ok, welcome back to this three-part series on identifying issues facing college student-athletes and coaches today. This post is going to focus on what we can do to not only help our student-athletes but also to help ourselves in working with this population. Photo by Steven Lelham on Unsplash The very first thing we need to do as coaches is determine where WE are, and what we want OUR goals to be. That can look several different ways. When's the last time you looked at your coaching philosophy? Are you still working in ways that demonstrate your philosophy? Look at that and decide who YOU want to be as a coach, and then work backward from there. (I love working on philosophies! Let me know if you want to work on this together!) This is something you should look at at the beginning and end of each season. At the beginning, you ask yourself, "Is this still what I want to do? Are these the most important ...
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